LAW REFORM MEASURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 10

LAW REFORM MEASURE

HOUSE PASSES BILL

PULES MODIFIED

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night

In the House of Representatives the Hon. H. G. R. Mason-, Hie AttorneyGenera], moved iho committal ut the Law Reform Bill, which, lie said, sought to modify certain rules of law. J!eeeidlv an influential committee in lviglaml, under the chairmanship 1 of Iho Master of the Rolls, had reported on certain points of law, and the bill was built- on the report of that committee. At present, in an accident involving a motor, if the wrongdoer was killed, the injured person had no remedy, and the bill would alter that. Ihe bill also gave the mother of an illegitimate child certain rights she did not at present possess. Again at present, claims for damages where death occurred could not include funeral expenses; that would bo remedied under the bill. A. number of curious old laws regarding the properly of married women, and the liability of husbands, were removed. Ho thanked the legal profession, and tho legal- members of the House and the Statutes Revision Committee for the help they had given him In framing the bill. The bill had received general support, particularly .from legal members of the House. The motion for committal was carried and the House went into committee. Several technical amendment*} were made to the hill-, which was reported to the House with amendments, read a third time and passed.